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My colleague Benoît Côté has already addressed, in a noteworthy manner, the article published by a certain Mr. Brisson in the Huffington Post. I published his response to Mr. Brisson on my blog, as a guest blogger, here. If you understand french, I would highly recommend reading his article. I also wish to say something about the documentary and Mr. Brisson's response to the documentary. I will, however, be coming at it from a slightly different angle, so though I agree profoundly with Benoît Côté, our responses do not seem to overlap in any significant way.Due to the importance of the subject that I will be
discussing, this will be one of the few blog posts that will be published in both French
and English (French edition will be published later). Recently RDI showed a
documentary entitled Les Soldats de Jésus
(The Soldiers of Jesus),[1]
which sets out to explore the protestant evangelical movement that is gaining a
certain importance in Quebec. The documentary sets out with the …

The Moral Quest: Foundations of Christian Ethics. Stanley J. Grenz. InterVarsity Press,
1997.379 pp.$30.00. ISBN0-8308-1549-X.
This book is,
according to Stanley Grenz himself, the result of fifteen years of teaching
ethics.[1] Just a
quick glance through the exhaustive endnotes (some 48 pages), and the bibliography
(some 17 pages long) demonstrates that Grenz has put a colossal amount of
research into this book. It comes with an index for scripture usage, and for
the main ideas and authors that we meet as we read through the book. The
purpose of the book is to outline, in contrast with the varying philosophical
and theological moral systems that have been advanced throughout the years,
what the author calls a biblical ethics. In the preface he summarizes his
conclusion: “My basic conclusion is that the Christian ethic is the outworking
in life of the theological vision disclosed in and through the narrative given
to us in Scripture.”[2] Grenz
recognizes that in order to write a book …